Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-23

i en- eloquent and manly appeal for deep
wafer at any place on the Texas coast
Houston's delegation voted for il, and
| then wondered ii somebody had not
slipped Sol Smith Russell's Indisn anu
| let into their midst.
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Il can now go on record that Mr.. Lasker
OF the Galveston delegation will never ask
| Captain B. B. Paddock how money is
going to be raised. He found out all
about it.
W.P. McRsry of Wiehits Fails is what
J is known among the irreverert as hug
] tier.
"O,d Tigs" made speech Oh theh3me-
| stead law that captured the house. The
General is eging fast and has grown
quite gray, but he is still full OF fire, and
when he says anything be means it. His
voice was weak, dropping at times TO flute
like csdences and again bursting out in
bold basso profundo. He wanted that
homestead law and he wes there TO defend
IL. The General has grown stout, and
his chest is as big IS q barrel, but 1t is
too small for his honest haart.
DR.. Riley OF Bowie Knows more about
finding bed thsn any mortal on earth.
Even though Dallas was crowded, be
founo sone-snd good one.
The disposition on the part CT the poll
ticians eeemed to be to let the convention
alone.
Dudley G. Wootep, Esq, wanted peo-
PIE to Know that Austin desired the pleas
ure Of their company at the dedication Of
the new state capitol. Mr.. Wootea has
learned three things and learned them
well, to wit: What to say, how to ssy it,
and when TO speak.
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Conspicuous in the front f the conven-
lion was Editor William G. Sterett, who
was in constant attendance from the open
ing OF the convention until the final nunc
dinittus. Sterett has grown stout and
portly and his face is deeper and broader
He has the appearance OF the Well-to-do,
contented gentleman that he is. l may
explain that when 1 speak ofthe increased
proportions of his physiognomical terri
tory that l mean oil his face, snd not
part Of it-cheeks and all He intro
duced series of resolutions inGorsing
Randall, free grass and prohibition, but
owing to the lateness Of the hour they
were referred to the appropriate commit
tees. His impromptu speech, which he
read, on the question of internal revenue
and it's relations to deep water in Buffalo
bayou, was the best thing heard.
The San Antonio delegation, consisting
OF II. B. Andrews, William Henermann,
c. L. Digreswity, George W. Russ and
William Ferguson, had little to say in the
debate OF the convention, but they were
backed by a subscription of $4,000, put
up by the Alamo City for advertising pur-
poses. San Antonio has been at the 'front.'
in advertising the state.
DeGress of Ausun wzs there. He
seemed to have more political enemies
and personal friends than any of them.
Whenever anything is going to be dCEe |
Senator Matlock's well modulated voice |
can be heard. His tEemulous, heststing /
was so appealing that the dozan |
or SO gentlemen who had risen to claim |
the door would sit down, feeling that |
they were real boorish and rude in strug- |
CLING for 1t. Smooth, smooth, smooth.
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johnson county sent g representative
worthy Of her. He is the typical Texan
that we know and tie writers Of fiction
do not know. He wanted the whole
earth mopped up with the homestead
resolution.
Ferguson OF the San Antonio Times
was keeping his eye on the gun and work
ng for one of the Democratic conven-
ions. He did good work, and hiss given
he Alamo boom as desirable place for
holding it. He does not look like the
representative OF such town as San
Antonio.